adjective

1. female; of women or girls
2. having qualities regarded as characteristic of women and girls, as gentleness, weakness, delicacy, or modesty
3. suitable to or characteristic of a woman; womanly
4. effeminate; womanish: said of a man
5. Gram. designating, of, or belonging to the gender of words denoting, or referring to, females as well as many other words to which no distinction of sex is attributed
6. Music designating or of a cadence ending on an unaccented note or chord
7. Prosody
   1. ending with an unstressed syllable, as a line of verse
   2. designating or of a rhyme in which the rhyming elements have two, or sometimes three, syllables of which only the first is stressed (Ex.: danger, stranger)

Etymology: ME < OFr < L femininus < femina, woman

noun

1. the feminine gender
2. a word or form in this gender